Cloning a Mac OS X system from another Mac

Materials

Procedure

Boot target machine in "FireWire Target Disk Mode". This is a mode
built into the firmware which makes the Mac appear to be a FireWire
disk drive to other machines. However it only works for more recent
Macs (I think most G4 Macs do it).

Turn computer off

Attach keyboard and monitor

Hold down "T" key

Turn computer on

Continue holding "T" key until a FireWire logo appears on the screen

Boot up source machine

Connect FireWire cable between source and target machines

Log in to source machine as root (or some other user with Administrator
access)

Wait about 30 minutes. During that time I get two errors. Click on
"ignore"

There is a problem with /usr/bin/ditto, the command that
Carbon Copy Cloner uses to copy files, and NFS mounts. The result is that
the /private directory does not get copied correctly. So that
folder must be copied manually: